Before highways and blacktop, pioneers crossed California’s dunes on this—an actual wooden road. We visited the eerie remains ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- This economic development project, like so many others in New York state, promised the moon: It would boost the economy. Raise revenue. Increase property values. Make investors rich.

BLAST FROM THE PAST – In the mid-19th century, the country experienced the Plank Road Boom. George Geddes, an engineer from Syracuse, saw plank roads — which are exactly what they sound like ...

Officials said no, opting instead to back the Southwestern Plank Road — literally a road built of wooden planks — that would allow farmers and other travelers to travel by carriage or wagon to ...